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MINNESOTA MOMENTS MAY/JUNE 2008
VOLUME V, EDITION 2

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31 Small-town drive-ins across the state offer great food, great atmosphere.

Minnesota Moments visits four family-owned drive-ins to sample the menu's and activities.

Dari King - A Redwood Falls Tradition
The Lakeview - Celebrating 70 years in Winona
Shake It Up - Waterville
The Peppermint Twist - Delano

41 Today’s concrete is used in ways that you wouldn’t have imagined 20 years ago.

Concrete has been used in houses for a long time, but it wasn't until the trend of of staining, stamping, etching and decorating concrete on the coasts caught on did the practice become popular in Minnesota.

columns	moments in time
8 Glory days by Mike Nistler 10 Everyday life by Diane Wimmer	20 A fisherman’s dream by David Weeres 22 The last merit badge by Bill Kraft 26 Boundary Waters by Gene Boysen 28 Dandelions for mom by Audrey Kletscher Helbling

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5 A LITTLE SOMETHING 7 LETTERS 12 CALENDAR Take a peek at what’s happening around the state. 13 FACES AND PLACES Hometown festivals are great for communities across the state. 18 HOMETOWN HERO Meet our second hometown hero. 29 BOOK REVIEW Books and films for summer. 46 DOMESTICATE IT! Working with concrete.	48 IN THE KITCHEN "A love affair to rise to" Collegeville resident Steve Nelson profiles his exuberant passion "artisan bread". Recipes: Pizza / Hard Roll Dough 52 TRAVEL Celebrating Minnesota, county by county. first of a 4-part series. 56 GARAGES He said, she said. 58 OUTDOOR MOMENTS State record fish. 62 BACK IN THE DAY Preserving history. 64 PICTURE THIS

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Read about Berne Swissfest, billed as “the most traditional Swiss festival in North America.” Minnesota Moment’s southern correspondent Audrey Kletscher Helbling calls it “a little bit of Switzerland in Minnesota.”
This year marks the 55th festival hosted by Zwingli United Church of Christ in Berne, a small hamlet in Dodge County.

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